miranda lambert

Last night's WMZQ radio fest at big outdoor shed Jiffy Lube Live, down the road from Washington DC featured Miranda as the headliner and the Pistol Annies on the bill. I wasn't able to make it, but my gf went and reported:

Miranda was great. She only played about 5 songs with her girl group and the rest were just her with male band members, including her cover of Rock and Roll Hootchie Coo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olk1dTcFP_U

station back home's playing "Over You" again & again still & it's caught me. She's singing differently on it than on the first records or the Pistol Annie's record (haven't listened to Revolution closely enough yet to compare since it sounds so gross & I completely missed the singles on the radio). (but compare the ACM take above.) The best part is how the song builds up for a massive climax & she pulls away: a sock right in the gut every time.

New material?

Miranda Lambert is certainly a tough woman, though, and Us Weekly, which features the two on its new cover, does hint at some trouble in paradise.

She’s so worried, allegedly, that flirty Blake Shelton may stray that she keeps a close eye on his texts and tweets! She has full access. All the time.

“[Miranda] knows [Blake] comes off as flirty. She questions him at times and asks about certain girls. The rumors are hard for her to hear,” a source said.

In June, Miranda, 29, told the magazine that she’s checked out some of the people that Blake, 36, follows on social media and “they’re all hot girls!”

No word if Cady Groves was/is one of the people in question.

Miranda, who is apparently quoted in the cover story, says she keeps her husband in line by demanding full-time access to his handheld technology.

“Either one of us can always look at each other’s phone, and we know each other’s passcode,” she adds. “I like to check his direct [Twitter] messages.”

pretty sure she tweeted that they are almost done with the new Pistols album

It's coming out in like2 weeks

"automatic" is a pretty awful song, huh

like, there's value in the familiar blah blah blah but not this kind of reactionary nostalgia

hardly an indelible hook, either

http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=9751

I haven't hated this song the couple of times I've heard bits of it, but I was disappointed, hearing it from start to finish, that it wasn't an entire song dedicated to driving stick.

yeah i basically don't like "automatic" at all, i heard it on the radio and had to switch it off not even halfway through

Just listening to it today and I kinda like it, but I get why someone wouldn't. I just love the idea that there's a sequenced synth clicking along in the background like it's no big deal.

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Was hoping I'd want to defend the song, but it's nothing special on first listen.

guys, do we like the new song, "Vice"?

i like it.

We discussed it some in the Rolling Country thread. I love its stately build.

I love it a lot

she is my favorite songwriter of self-destructive impulses

also i saw her in concert last night and relistened to the albums in preparation. a couple are a little baggy for my tastes, but she has just so many solid songs. impressive!

she performed "bathroom sink" last night btw <3 <3 <3

I like the frazzled guitar work in "Vice." This is kind of what I wished Elizabeth Cook's Exodus of Venus sounded like. But I think the record would've been better with a bridge.

xp uuuugghh i almost went to that show but talked myself out of driving to MD on a weekday. "bathroom" sink is my fave; didn't think it had been showing up on the setlist!

"vice" is great despite ending kinda anticlimactically. sometimes i find myself hitting repeat immediately after the last verse.

I talked myself out of driving up for the show too. Oh well.

Don't sleep on the Pistol Annies albums (Lambert recently told a concert audience that a new set's in the works), or Ashley Monroe's The Blade(her best) or Angaleena Presley's American Middle Class(her only, also pretty good).

Look for her Austin City Limits shows online: in the first, fairly early on, she and band left Gretchen Wilson's road-jaded/weary-sounding run-through in the dust; second was all-Lambert, I think, with her cranked-up combo now something of a guitar army, though her voice kept it country (also on ballads). And Pistol Annies did a mini-set in the middle, just gliding through. No idea what her presentation is like now, though she's got even more good songs now, and suspect she's still shifting gears often enough.

https://twitter.com/mirandalambert/status/775801099995455488

the weight of these wings, out november 18

BEEP

I really like Vice

Co-write and duet with Steve Earle ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNAAPOQ0Fkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQnJ8b1iXyk

i really liked this song on that last green day album and miranda's harmonies are lovely here

I was gonna revive this thread on the anniversary of the release of her best album.

It's the anniversary of Kerosene? Cool

this article says she brought out Monroe and Presley and did some Pistol Annies stuff last night in Lexington:

http://www.kentucky.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article203288584.html

miss the pistol annies in my life!

She really is the best working American singer-songwriter.

What about 'What About Georgia?'?

Good one. Kerosene rarely gets cited as one of her best.

Her albums.

I love “The House That Built Me” so much

yeah it's tremendous

that album ranking is correct

Returning to Four the Record after TWOTW was a genuine shock. Too damn long, too goopy.

Alfred, your album-ranking blog entry misstates the "Kerosene" release date (it says "1995" instead of 2005).

oops. Got it, thanks!

the bass playing on TWOTW is so good

Me and Your Vinaigrettes:

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/miranda-lambert-dumps-salad-on-woman-during-argument-report

on brand

Was listening to Four the Record lately, and especially keep coming back to "Fine Tune." It occurred to me today that musically it's almost like a Built to Spill song.

That song kills. Best on Four the Record by a mile and would compete for my top 10 Lambert tracks. Drips with attitude and swagger. Love the garage band percussion, the dissonant guitar, and the filter they put on her voice - the way it squelches when she hits louder bits like "My pulse was nearly gone" is glorious. Her performance is absurdly good, too. Think it's awesome that they put it second on that album, because most of the rest can feel...safe - no pun intended.

She's got a new single imminent, "If I Was a Cowboy".

Thinking about my favorite records of the year and went back to The Marfa Tapes this morning. I’m fond of it - a modest little album that somehow maintains its charm the whole way through. Also realized all my favorites have Jack Ingram on lead vocal. Tried his solo albums and couldn’t hack it though.

Title track from Pistol Annies Xmass alb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV6ThqwkDdw